Seán Molloy writes:
Spotted in Mace in Leitrim at the weekend. I know Fyffes are irish and all … But is this a mistake by Mace. Or is this labelling “allowed” due to some loophole that means banana that are repackaged, labelled or separated and sold separately, are considered “processed in / produce of” Ireland.
Food for thought.
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We wouldn’t want that.
cheerio cheerio cheerio
Maybe you can tell us about Bananas being racist, or maybe they don’t pay tax?
BS is dying on its feet. It won’t see 2015.
All it takes is for another site, exactly the same (which would be very easy) to set up and be a bit funnier and more into shameless click baiting.
You. Will. Fail.
Several medical experts said much the same about your rectum and yet here we are witness to a miracle.
Ah Jaysus. Poor oul’ Biros.
Ireland are actually the worlds largest exporter of bananas thanks to Fyffes, and I believe bananas aren’t classified as actually bananas until they’re ripe, which they’re not when they’re shipped here.
I can’t believe there’s actually people in Ireland who still don’t know this.
WHere the hell do people think the term(and song) Banana Republic came from? Apart from the cronyism and corruption that is!?!
Well done Fyffes PR person.
I think he means ,where you can class ‘produce of’ when they become ripe.. or something.
If they’re not classed as bananas until they’re ripe, what are they classed as until they’re ripe?
Soon to be bananas? Bananas in the making? Unripe bananas?
Tis bananas..
Raw materials.
I am wondering why each one needs a label saying it is a “Single banana”. Surely, it is clear that each one is single.
Not when there’s a bunch of them stacked on each other. The label is needed for the barcode. Do you know how they work?
Cramped in a box like that, I’d struggle to believe I was single too. The label helps.
According to our glorious tax law, bananas were manufactured in Ireland, al least up to 2010. Sufficient value add in the warehouse as the green inedible fruit it ripened into the glorious yellow thing to qualify as a manufacturing activity when manufacturing and services business were subject to different rates of taxation.
Is his name really “Sea Molloy” or is it “Sean”?
Would you consider a FIAT to be an Italian car or a Polish one? No Fiat’s are built in Italy anymore however the headquarters are in Turin, Italy.
Likewise Fyffes, headquartered in Dublin are able to call their product “Irish”.
A better analogy might be found by considering the clothes of the Irish brand Penney’s, which we know are Irish, but of course are made in Sri Lanka.
Not sure that works. iPhones, designed in California, produced in China.
They are both terrible analogies.
A better one might be whether a shirt stitched together in Ireland out of Italian fabric could be considered an Irish shirt. Or butter from foreign milk being Irish butter? Though both of those are quite a bit more active than putting a banana in a warehouse and waiting for it to ripen, so maybe my analogies are also rubbish.
I’ve got it.
If we are allowed to claim Daniel Day Lewis as an Irish actor, then I don’t think we can complain about this banana thing.
can should read can’t. obvs.
You had one chance Rob and you blew it……
So it should read “I don’t think we can’t complain”?
Fiat have plenty of manufacturing in Italy still including Turin – most of the rest are further south where labour is cheaper though.
No one is commenting on the absolute rip off price. 49c for a single banana? Jog on.
They’re big bananas though..
Yes,they are clearly Irish bananas.They lack bendyness, a quality mostly found in foreign bananas.I wouldn’t trust them.I would demand at least 37% more bendyness from my bananas.
I thought the best bananas were stiff bananas..
Not really. Perhaps you’re mixing them up with penises. Which is far from hygienic, frankly
I don’t see what’s unhygienic about eating a stiff banana now and then..
Anne is a man!
Sorry Anne,substitute the words bendyness for concaveness.The rigidity of said bananas is a seperate issue.